The memoir “Insulting
behaviour...and other misdemeanours” has been revised and
includes some new written material,
particularly in Chapters 4, 5, 10 and 11, with
photographs and other
illustrations.
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Wynford Hicks
A memoir in
five parts
Part one:
CATHOLIC CHILDHOOD
Chapter 1: Sevenoaks to Seaford by
way of Bexhill and Wadhurst
Chapter 2: surviving Stonyhurst, the
Jesuit college, a very military public school
Part two:
ANARCHIST YOUTH
Chapter 3: Christ Church, Oxford,
drinking, drugs and debating with Etonians
Chapter 4: CND, Charlotte Fawcett,
the Committee of 100 and prison
Chapter 5: Notting Hill anarchists,
Stuart Christie’s story, Anarchist Youth magazine
Part three:
“ROLL OVER, BEETHOVEN”
Chapter 6: Paris in 1960, hedonism
& hitchhiking, the Daily Mail & Top of the Pops
Chapter 7: Swinging London, Ready, Steady, Go!, pirate radio
& Spurs
Chapter 8: a gap year – up the Nile
to Kampala, Mombasa, India & the hippy trail
Part four:
WORK, PLAY AND POLITICS
Chapter 9: 1968 & all that, Freedom,
Cornmarket Press, Enoch Powell (by Paul Foot)
Chapter 10: Welcome aboard (BOAC),
features & subbing for Radio Times, a stint at the TLS
Chapter 11: the Alternative dummy,
the Ink fiasco, Inside Story & Wildcat
Part five:
EDUCATION, EDUCATION, EDUCATION
Chapter 12: the comprehensive revolution: theory (Anthony
Crosland) and practice (Pimlico)
Chapter 13: the English question,
“more will mean worse”, Garnett College of Education,
English for Journalists, the “fronted adverbial”
Postscript: a visit to Mallorca
Wynford
Hicks was schooled by the Jesuits at Stonyhurst College and won a
scholarship in history to Christ Church, Oxford, where he was secretary of
the Oxford Union debating society and chaired the university Labour club;
joined the anti-nuclear Committee of 100 and co-founded the Oxford
anarchist group; taught in east London schools for a year; worked for the
Daily Mail, Radio Times, the Times Literary Supplement, the Observer
magazine, Police Review and Cornmarket Press where he edited BOAC’s inflight
magazine; wrote a column for Freedom, the anarchist weekly; founded and
edited the alternative news magazine Inside Story; and taught journalism
from 1978 to 1996 at the London College of Printing, City University and
various publishing companies. His books include English for Journalists,
now in its fifth edition, and Quite Literally, both published by Routledge.